“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know...… — Ned Vizzini It's kind of a Funny Story Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil. — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
“The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one — in this… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Finally, some of the genes identified in certain variants of schizophrenia or bipolar disease actually augment certain abilities. If the most pathological… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke… — Katrina Leno Copy Share Image